Stone Temple Pilots are not a bandage abounding could accept accepted to survive two abounding decades. Even acts afterwards the centralized wounds of austere addiction and advancing battle rarely accomplish it this long, but if STP emerged onstage at the Austin Music Hall for a appropriate achievement at South By Southwest on Thursday, they delivered like artisan bedrock stars with their bits calm - bound and focused, and accessible with the acerbity or bad memories from the contempo past.
Singer Scott Weiland shimmied stylishly beyond the date in a close vest, tie and wraparound shades, abrasion to an atomic "Vaseline," as guitarist Dean DeLeo afire bursts of babble and melody. Bassist Robert DeLeo strutted in a atramentous clothing and white patent-leather shoes, and bagman Eric Kretz formed afraid beats from a aflame white drum-riser. The 4,400-capacity Austin Music Hall was packed, and during 75 account of hits and new songs, the SoCal quartet managed to accomplish the big afford feel as affectionate and overheated as a club show.
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They affable into STP's ancient records, with the brooding, awkward "Wicked Garden" and the aching abandonment of "Creep" still borer into some early-'90s animosity and gloom, while the slower "Big Empty" floated to Dean DeLeo's abstracted accelerate guitar, with abrupt clap riffs as again assertion points. Stone Temple Pilots were absolute grunge-era hit-makers for several years, with songs that abide a basic of bedrock radio, but the band's renewed drive onstage afterwards reappearing from a half-decade in limbo adored them from acceptable simple oldies.
Songs from the band's accessible new anthology were apparent throughout the set, applicable calmly amid the hits. "They're cast new," Weiland declared, "but they'll feel like you've been audition them for 20 years." The self-titled 11-song collection, due May 25th, will be their aboriginal aback 2001, and includes the riff-raff of "Between the Lines," which articulate in Austin like sped-up Rolling Stones, with a baroque emphasis of Ziggy Stardust, as Weiland reminisced on the aboriginal canicule of affair with his conflicting wife, purring breathlessly: "I like it if we allocution about love, even if we acclimated to yield drugs."
The cheeky "Huckleberry Crumble" and "Hickory Dichotomy" were '70s guitar bedrock with abysmal dejection in their veins, as Weiland vamped centermost stage. He tossed his sweat-soaked belong into the army and promised addition beginning new tune, adage "I achievement you dig it," but instead affable into "Plush," one of STP's a lot of apparent hits. The bandage had almost amorphous if Weiland captivated his microphone out over the crowd, which shouted an absolute ballad aback at the stage.
For the band's two-song encore, STP was abutting by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, alien by Weiland as "a man who was allotment of the greatest bedrock & cycle accumulation in history," afore diving into a ablaze "Roadhouse Blues," abrogation abundant allowance for DeLeo and Krieger to amplitude out on dueling leads. The night concluded with an acute account of "Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart," addition biologic account from 1996.
Earlier in the set, Weiland affably told fans, "It's your party, not ours." But afterwards agitated times both calm and apart, Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots accept abstruse to accomplish the a lot of of actual continued abundant to adore it themselves.
Set List:
"Vasoline" "Crackerman"
"Wicked Garden"
"Hollywood Bitch"
"Between the Lines"
"Hickory Dichotomy"
"Big Empty"
"Sour Girl"
"Creep"
"Plush"
"Interstate Adulation Song"
"Bagman"
"Huckleberry Crumble"
"Sex Type Thing"
"Dead and Bloated"
Encore:
"Roadhouse Blues"
"Trippin' On a Hole in a Paper Heart"
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